Working with our members and partners in various industry sectors, we continue to focus on distinct areas of public policy that are most critical to our members and their growth. We look forward to working with our members to continuously update and focus our policy agenda based on the feedback and concerns expressed.

Communicate BIZ Roundtable is a monthly seminar series for small business owners and professionals responsible for marketing, PR, sales and internal communications within their companies. Attend the January 28th Roundtable.

Norfolk, VA. (January 20, 2015) Vandeventer Black LLP is pleased to announce the addition of accomplished commercial litigator Ellen F. Bergren to the firm. She will be based in Norfolk, VA where the law offices are headquartered. Bergrens primary practice will focus on complex commercial litigation and general commercial litigation, as well as creditors rights and bankruptcy. Bergren has expertise in federal trial and appellate practice, and has previous litigation experience involving products liability, mass tort, insurance, and reinsurance defense.

Norfolk, Va., January 19, 2015 DHG, the largest accounting firm in the Southeast, announces that Joel Flax, Partner in the firms Norfolk office has been elected to the Hampton Roads Association for Commercial Real Estate (HRACRE) Board of Directors.

Virginia Beach, Va. On January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 lifted off from Cape Kennedy, and three days later Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard walked on the surface of the moon. As amazing as this feat was, for Mitchell, the most extraordinary journey was yet to come. As he plunged toward earth through the vastness of space, Mitchell became engulfed by a sense of universal connectednessa profound sense that he and the beings on the planet below were connected as part of a deliberate designand that the cosmos itself was somehow conscious. The experience changed Mitchells life in ways he could never have anticipated, and he has devoted the past 40 years to studying human consciousness and psychic and paranormal phenomena in the search for a common ground between science and spirit. He is bringing that message to Edgar Cayces A.R.E. for the new Breakthroughs to a New Consciousness: Science, Spirituality, and the Limitless Mind Conference from March 27-29, 2015.

Norfolk, VA: Craver, Green & Company, PLC of Norfolk has joined forces with McPhillips, Roberts and Deans, PLC, the largest, locally owned CPA firm in the region. Craver, Green & Co. has been serving clients in the Hampton Roads community for more than 60 years. The firms professionals will join a team of over 70 at McPhillips, Roberts & Deans working in downtown Norfolk.